Papyrus 15
New Testament manuscript
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Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓15, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was originally a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline Corpus of letters, but now only contains 1 Corinthians 7:18–8:4.[1] The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century.[2]
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| New Testament manuscript | |
| |
| Name | P. Oxy. 1008 |
|---|---|
| Text | 1 Corinthians 7–8 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Egyptian Museum |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8 |
| Size | 26.5 x 14 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
Description
The manuscript is written in a documentary hand.[2] There are about 37-38 lines per page.[2] Grenfeld and Hunt conjectured that 𝔓15 and 𝔓16 might have been part of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same formation of letters, line space, and punctuation.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.[3] It was the last papyrus classified by Gregory, in 1915. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum (JE 47423) in Cairo.[3][4]
